UA9YAB Dies During DXpedition (AID REQUEST UPDATE)

Yuri Sushkin N3QQ and Yuri Zaruba UA9OBA issue the following:

“Our colleague, Alex UA9YAB (50) who you may have worked very recently as YV7 and YV5/UA9YAB died during expedition. Cause of death is possibly a bite by poisonous jellyfish. He had no evacuation insurance and his family (wife Natalia and two young children) kindly ask for your helpwith body transportation costs.

Contact information, or any questions, to Yuri Zaruba UA9OBA nsi [at] lvs.ru +0117-(3833)-511-777 or Yuri Sushkin N3QQ n3qq [at] na-234.com +1(206)529-5168

Donations can be made by Paypal to the following link:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=MQ3SZEXVQ2DAA

Thank you very much for your help in this time of need”.

Source DXWorld: http://dx-world.net/2012/urgent-help-needed/

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Today August 11, 2012 ended prematurely the mini DXpedition from Los Roques Island (IOTA SA-035) of Alexander (Sasha for  friends) UA9YAB. Unfortunately, during a swim his heart stopped, he had 50 years. Sasha was a skilled and experienced operator on phone and CW, we remember him for many activities, first by the various former ex-Soviet republics, also from Mongolia, his home was in Biysk, a town not far from the Mongolian border. In the last January he was active as XU7AEQ from Cambodia.

He leaves a wife, Natalia, and two children, of whom the youngest was only 3 years old. The Russian ham community on the Forum QRZ.RU are in contact with the family and the Russian embassy in Caracas. Return procedures are long and difficult, but also most expensive, they launched an initiative for those who want to make a donation to the family to cover the costs of repatriation of remains (about 30,000 dollars). At this link all the information translated into English.

On behalf of the editorial staff to be our condolences to the family of Alexander, we will miss his signal and his voice, listened until yesterday on frequencies.